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Primary structure and distribution of a novel ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel from rabbit brain
Y Hakamata1, J Nakai, H Takeshima
1Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
FEBS Letters
|November 9, 1992
Abstract:
The complete amino acid sequence of a novel ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel from rabbit brain has been deduced by cloning and sequence analysis of the cDNA. This protein is composed of 4872 amino acids and shares characteristic structural features with the skeletal muscle and cardiac ryanodine receptors. RNA blot hybridization analysis shows that the brain ryanodine receptor is abundantly expressed in corpus striatum, thalamus and hippocampus, whereas the cardiac ryanodine receptor is more uniformly expressed in the brain. The brain ryanodine receptor gene is transcribed also in smooth muscle.